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प्रश्न
A plane wave front AB propagating from denser medium (1) into a rarer medium (2) is incident on the surface P1P2 separating the two media as shown in fig.
Using Huygen’s principle, draw the secondary wavelets and obtain the refracted wave front in the diagram.
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उत्तर
संबंधित प्रश्न
On the basis of Huygens' wave theory of light prove that velocity of light in a rarer medium is greater than velocity of light in a denser medium.
What is the shape of the wavefront in the following case?
Light diverging from a point source.
Use Huygens' principle to verify the laws of refraction.
When the width of the slit is made double the original width, how would this affect the size and intensity of the central diffraction band?
State Huygens’s principle. Show, with the help of a suitable diagram, how this principle is used to obtain the diffraction pattern by a single slit.
Draw a plot of intensity distribution and explain clearly why the secondary maxima becomes weaker with increasing order (n) of the secondary maxima.
Huygens' principle of secondary wavelets may be used to
(a) find the velocity of light in vacuum
(b) explain the particle behaviour of light
(c) find the new position of a wavefront
(d) explain Snell's Law
What is the geometrical shape of the wavefront for:
- Light diverging from a point source?
- The pattern of wavefront of the light from a distant star intercepted by earth?
Answer the following question briefly and to the point:
What is the phase difference between any two points lying on the same wavefront?
The inverse square law of intensity is valid for a
Represent diagrammatically how the incident planar wavefronts of wavelength λ pass through an aperture of size d, when d is approximately equal to λ.
